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The European Legacy
Toward New Paradigms
Volume 12, 2007 - Issue 6
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Viola Brisolin Centre for European Studies, University College London, UK
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Harvey Chisick Dept of General History, University of Haifa, Israel
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John Danvers Dept. of Art and Design, University of Plymouth, UK
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Jens de Vleminck Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Shirley J. Paolini Duncan University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA
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Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan Haifa University, Israel
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Kristian Gerner Dept. of History, Lund University, Sweden
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Omer Gersten Dept. of Demography, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Marja Härmänmaa University of Helsinki, Finland
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Bernard Harris School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
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Grant Havers Trinity Western University, Canada
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Noah Heringman University of Missouri, USA
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Horst Jesse Berlstraße 6a, 81375 Munich
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Cem Karadeli Çankaya University, Turkey
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Innes Kennedy Orkney College, Scotland, UK
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Hugh Lindsay University of Newcastle, Australia
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Babacar M’Baye Kent State University, USA
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William Mengel United States Military Academy, USA
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Jason C. Robinson University of Guelph, Canada
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Christian Roy Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
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Stanley Shostak University of Pittsburgh, USA
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Lora Sigler California State University, USA
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Peter Sluglett History Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
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Tridip Suhrud DA-IICT, India
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Paola S. Timiras University of California at Berkeley, USA
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Alfred Tovias The Hebrew University, Israel
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Christos C. Tsagalis University of Athens, Greece
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Spencer C. Tucker Virginia Military Institute (retired), USA
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Ann Ward University of Regina, Canada
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John E. Weakland Ball State University, USA
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Gabriel P. Weisberg University of Minnesota, USA
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Ken Wessen The University of Western Australia, Australia
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Notes

1. While a detailed analysis of this painting is outside the scope of this review, I have to quarrel with Gibson's interpretation (taking his cue from Karel van Mander) that Griet is a looter. She and her army of housewives seem more to be preserving their households from attacking demons (the enemy) than looting them. I believe he, and the art historians he quotes, have hold of the wrong end of the stick.

2. This was a popular farcical situation wherein a married woman, feigning illness, sends her husband on a wild goose chase for plaijerwater (fake water) so that she can entertain her lover.

3. Gibson states airily, “scholars have mined these pictures so industriously for whatever nuggets of profundity [they possess] … they have generally overlooked the marvels that Bruegel presents to the naked eye.

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